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Yep. Cereals, fruit juices, mainstream coffee (Starbucks, Dunkin, etc.), yogurt, baked goods... It's insane to me that society in the US has been conditioned t

Yep. Cereals, fruit juices, mainstream coffee (Starbucks, Dunkin, etc.), yogurt, baked goods... It's insane to me that society in the US has been conditioned to consume literally hundreds of grams of sugar for breakfast. If you need caffeine (which is a separate discussion), you don't need to consume what's essentially a frozen milkshake as the delivery vehicle.

TedDoesntTalk 5y ago
> yogurt I don’t think unflavored yogurt has much sugar, does it?
- dannyw 5y ago
  No, but most yoghurt I see people buy are the sweetened kinds.
  - TedDoesntTalk 5y ago
    Buy unsweetened! If you can’t stand it, mix some pre-puréed fruit from baby jars intended for infants ($1 or less each).
- laurent92 5y ago
  Unflavored yoghurt has 5g of sugar (size of a sugar cube), and I’ve often seen up to 12g… (2 cubes and a half!) still branded as unflavored. It’s a crime we’re doing here, there is no place where we can get unsweetened matter.
  - phonypc 5y ago
    The 5g per serving example is probably actually unsweetened, i.e. it's just the naturally present lactose. No sucrose.
- schobi 5y ago
  We have "natural" joghurt in all stores (Germany) without any sugar. A breakfast with <1g of sugar is possible but requires some searching
14 5y ago
I quit coffee New Years and the reason was I was drinking it with a teaspoon of sugar and throughout the day would have about 5 cups like this. Being 240 days into the year I have cut out 1200 teaspoons of sugar from my diet by cutting coffee. I would like to cut out other sugars as well but find it extremely difficult to get ride of things like chocolate.
- sizzle 5y ago
  I can’t drink coffee with sugar for the same reason, just some 2% milk and I’m happy.
- dorchadas 5y ago
  I tried to cut out processed/added sugar in April. It's worked great mostly, even when eating out if I'm careful. Tea was the big thing for me though. I'm from the South and was literally drinking sweet tea from the time I was a few months old. It was difficult, especially as my grandmother made the best tea. But she eventually started making unsweet for me and it's really hard to go back to sweet tea. It's just so overpowering. Even eating too much sugar makes me sick now. I'm super glad I'm in Ireland now though, as I hope to keep up with the no added sugar trend once I start cooking for myself more. It'll be really interesting to see how much more weight I can lose (down ~20lbs since summer started simply by IF, walking and cutting out sugar more rigorously)

TedDoesntTalk 5y ago

> yogurt I don’t think unflavored yogurt has much sugar, does it?

dannyw 5y ago
No, but most yoghurt I see people buy are the sweetened kinds.
- TedDoesntTalk 5y ago
  Buy unsweetened! If you can’t stand it, mix some pre-puréed fruit from baby jars intended for infants ($1 or less each).
laurent92 5y ago
Unflavored yoghurt has 5g of sugar (size of a sugar cube), and I’ve often seen up to 12g… (2 cubes and a half!) still branded as unflavored. It’s a crime we’re doing here, there is no place where we can get unsweetened matter.
- phonypc 5y ago
  The 5g per serving example is probably actually unsweetened, i.e. it's just the naturally present lactose. No sucrose.
schobi 5y ago
We have "natural" joghurt in all stores (Germany) without any sugar. A breakfast with <1g of sugar is possible but requires some searching

14 5y ago

I quit coffee New Years and the reason was I was drinking it with a teaspoon of sugar and throughout the day would have about 5 cups like this. Being 240 days into the year I have cut out 1200 teaspoons of sugar from my diet by cutting coffee. I would like to cut out other sugars as well but find it extremely difficult to get ride of things like chocolate.

sizzle 5y ago
I can’t drink coffee with sugar for the same reason, just some 2% milk and I’m happy.
dorchadas 5y ago
I tried to cut out processed/added sugar in April. It's worked great mostly, even when eating out if I'm careful. Tea was the big thing for me though. I'm from the South and was literally drinking sweet tea from the time I was a few months old. It was difficult, especially as my grandmother made the best tea. But she eventually started making unsweet for me and it's really hard to go back to sweet tea. It's just so overpowering. Even eating too much sugar makes me sick now. I'm super glad I'm in Ireland now though, as I hope to keep up with the no added sugar trend once I start cooking for myself more. It'll be really interesting to see how much more weight I can lose (down ~20lbs since summer started simply by IF, walking and cutting out sugar more rigorously)